Out of the WHUPC in round of 16

I'm out of The Worlds Heads-Up Championship in the round of 16. I got paid 5000€ for my efforts. That amounts to about $6750 USD. In my first round match I disposed of Juris Bonders in 100 minutes exactly. He jumped out to an early 25k-15k lead after I bluffed off some chips. I flopped a set of 3s on a 36J board though and took a 24/16 lead. On the last hand of level 2 I picked up another nice pot with KT on a final board T6834. Juris called on the end and showed me a ten, so it turns out I could've gotten more chips, not that it mattered...
I took a 33/7 lead into the 10 minute break and finished him off 40 minutes later all-in preflop with 22 vs his A8o. I flopped him almost dead with 266 and that was that.

This clinched atleast 5000€. The next match would be against Isaac Mayolas de Vega. Isaac put his opponent away in the round of 32 on the first hand of the match. I'd seen him play a little bit previously and knew he was a very good H/U player. We got underway and he quickly grinded me down to about 13,000. He was very aggressive and rarely folded to my preflop raises. My hat is off to him. He is outstanding, and I'm willing to admit he outplayed me H/U. At blinds 150/300 I limped from the button with J2dd. The flop came AdKcJs. Isaac led for 400 and I called. The turn was a 5d. Isaac checked to me, and I quickly bet 1000. He called. The river was great, the Td. Isaac checked and I finally decided to bet 3700. He pondered and finally called and showed me the Qs after I showed. Later, I picked up AKo on the button and made it 1100 at blinds 2/400. Isaac called and the flop came A56 rainbow. He checked to me and I bet 1600. He checkraised it to 3600 and after an acting-job I finally made it 7200. He folded fairly quickly. I stole some more pots and had as much as a 30/10 chip lead at one point. Here is where things start to go wrong though...
In the last couple minutes at 200/400 I raised to 1300 with K2hh. He called. The flop came QhQs2s. Isaac checked to me and I bet 1900. He fairly quickly moved all-in for 8200. I pondered for almost 5 minutes and finally decided to call. He showed me TT :( I was about 90% certain he didn't have a pair. He had been reraising me a lot preflop, so I assumed he would reraise me with any pair. I thought he most likely had a hand like T2 or an Ace-x flush draw. I also knew he was very capable of moving it all-in with just something like A8 on that board. It became very evident that he was planning on trapping preflop though after the hands were flipped over. I was certain of one thing, he didn't have a Q. I blank out and he doubles through to 20k. 5 minutes into the 3/600 blinds I called a raise with T7dd and the flop comes AdTs6d. I check called the flop and check called the turn when the 8c came off. The river was an offsuit 2 and after much deliberation by both of us, it finally went check-check and he showed me A4 :( I was down to about 10k. On the final hand I found 2 red tens on the button. I limped in and he made it 1700. I made it 5800 and he set me in for my last 4200 which I obviously called off. I get colddecked and he has JJ :( I blank out and am out of the tournament. Mayolas de Vega is going to be very, very tough to beat in this tournament. It's frustrating to make it so deep in the tournament and just come away with 5000, but it was a great tournament and an even greater experience. I'm pretty sure if I get through the Spaniard I would have a good shot at making it to the finals to play, possibly, Carlos Mortensen. After the $150 tip I left for the staff, I ended up profiting 4430€ after my investment in the satellite. Tomorrow night at 18:00 there is a $1000 freezeout tournament which we plan on playing. We're going to get some sleep and probably go to the beach tomorrow. Unless I make the final table of the 1000€ event (2 day event), I leave here on Friday afternoon. This is a very neat city, and I'm happy to atleast take some momentum of cashing in another main event into the WSOP.

Shannon